The 1,579 occurrences of fag

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I shall be dreadfully fagged, of course, but I feel it a duty to all of you to do so.

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Fagged, chilled, and dispirited, it was no wonder that he had returned home in not the best of tempers, and that he was a little disposed to find fault when Janetta made her appearance.

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"To tell you the truth, I am rather fagged out from my trip, and I am anxious to get on up-town.

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I a'n't going to have these folks go back home all fagged out when a cup of tea will do 'em good."

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"I'd love to stay--that's to say, if it won't really be giving you any trouble--you're looking fagged."

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"You're looking fagged, all the same."

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The boy noticed that it was tired and fagged and carried it a bucket of water.

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"You are not well, Miss Brander," the chief surgeon of the hospital said to her soon afterwards, "I have noticed all day that you have been looking fagged and worn out.

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A sudden feeling that she could not in her present mood submit to be petted and fussed over by Madame Michaud struck her, and turning abruptly she walked with brisk steps to the Arc de Triomphe and then down the Champs Elysées and along the Rue Rivoli, and then round the Boulevards, returning home fagged out, but the better for her exertion.

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Here comes Mr. Burt; he looks fagged out."

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We were there only a short time, when we were crowded on to some freight cars like cattle and transported to Bayou Boeuf, arriving at ten o'clock at night, pretty well fagged out.

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We went into camp at night pretty well fagged out.

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This was the seventh day of the siege and we were pretty well fagged out.

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The ground over which they were running was broken into holes and ditches, and the fagged horses floundered and pitched forward at every step.

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They were still three days from home, three days of crawling voyaging beside the fagged team.

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There was _no_ other monitor who did not try to be of some use to his fags; many of the monitors, by quiet kindnesses and useful hints, by judicious help and unselfish sympathy, were of most real service to the boys who nominally "fagged" for them, but who, in point of fact, were required to do nothing except taking an occasional message, seeing that the study fires did not go out, and carrying up the tea and breakfast for a week each, in order of rotation.

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Few Saint Winifred's boys would have hesitated to admit that they would have been less happy, and would have had fewer chances in school-life, if they had not been fags at first, and thereby found friends and protectors in the boys for whom they fagged.

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"But it is something to have been a countess, and she is wonderfully handsome, not a bit fagged out by a sea voyage.

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But, as is invariably the case, distance viewed over water is deceptive, and by the time that they had done three-quarters of the course both were feeling pretty well fagged out with their unusual exertions, though neither would admit it; and the fact remained that they were swimming much slower than at the start.

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You look all fagged out and you are spattered with mud from head to foot!

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In the course of a ride from Craighall they had both become considerably fagged and heated, and Clerk, seeing the smoke of a _clachan_ a little way before them, ejaculated--"How agreeable if we should here fall in with one of those signposts where a red lion predominates over a punch-bowl!"

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_12th August, Roye, in Picardy._--I imagine your Grace about this time to be tolerably well fagged with a hard day on the moors.

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Returning from a professional call at Tumble Tickle in clean, sunlit weather, with nothing more tedious than eighteen miles of wilderness trail and rough floe ice behind him, Doctor Rolfe was chagrined to discover himself fagged out.

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He had been fagged out before, to be sure.

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She came down to breakfast, looking tired and fagged.

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This occurred about three o'clock in the afternoon, and when at length we were all once more safe on solid ground we were, horses as well as men, so utterly fagged out that there was nothing for it but to off-saddle for the remainder of the day in order to recover.

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Churchill's men were so fagged by their early start and their long march of forty-five miles since the morning of the 8th that Taylor thought it best to give them two hours' rest before attempting anything more.

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We shall listen to the next speaker at another occasion, when we are not so fagged out.

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"We are all fagged out, now, sir," interposed Nevers.

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Not so Pinto or Crewe, who looked fagged out and all the more tired because they were both conspicuously unshaven.

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My poor dear Albert, who had been so fresh and well when we came back, looks so pale and fagged again.

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With Albert's love (he is well fagged with business), ever your devoted Niece, VICTORIA R. [Footnote 15: Lord Granville held the Foreign Secretaryship in 1870-1874, and again in 1880-1885.]

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All the men looked fagged and dirty and for the most part worn out with sleeplessness and want of food.

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But the thrill soon passed off, and as he tramped on he could not help thinking, in a low-spirited way, that the men looked dusty and fagged.

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At last, though, there was peace, and the officers of the 205th gathered in the mess-room to partake of a cup of coffee and a cigar before seeking their beds, as, utterly fagged out, they sat for some time talking over the events of the evening.

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I was pretty nigh beat out, too, and even the doctor seemed fagged; but we could stand it better than the poor little beast could.

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"He is getting fagged, aren't you, Mac?

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On the 29th of August, the "Pioneer," much to my joy, was again afloat, and fast to the ice in company with the other vessels; and, although my officers and crew were well fagged out with forty-eight hours' hard labour, parties of them, myself amongst the number, were to be seen trudging across the ice of Union Bay towards Franklin's winter quarters.

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You look abominably fagged, and as if some country would do you good.'

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My animals were getting fagged out, and slowly but steadily I was being overhauled.

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We make but a general gesture to the dim spaces of the past._ _The village of Clovelly climbs in a single street--a staircase, really--and it is fagged and out of breath half way.

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We shall make no more than a general gesture toward the wide spaces of the past._ _The village of Clovelly climbs in a single street--a staircase, really--from the shore to the top of the cliff, and is fagged and out of breath half way.

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Nobody had seen the kite, nor yet heard of it; so nothing remained but to trudge wearily back--hot, fagged, and low-spirited, for, as Fred said, "It was such a beauty!"

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"The poor fellow feels fagged and low-spirited.

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"You look fagged," said the commissioner, "take that chair--and you look hungry, too.

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Monsieur the Marquis in his traveling carriage (which might have been lighter), conducted by four post-horses and two postilions, fagged up a steep hill.

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His mind is fagged and worn out and will not concentrate.

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Completely fagged out, I sat there, my feet raw by the rubbing of my clogs.

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These well fagged troops by their fitness, even more than by their numbers, astonished many an onlooker who was by no means a "raw Kaffir"; and one old Dutchman expressed the thought of many minds when he said, "You seem able to turn out soldiers by machinery, _all of the same age_!"

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The boys were indeed completely fagged out.

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He was getting sleepy, felt utterly fagged.

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For he is now fairly fagged out perambulating the unpaved streets of that inhospitable town.

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Sometimes when I get all fagged out over housework I go out and pull weeds in it, and hoe a little, and train up the vines, and the first I know I'm ready to go back to work, with the tired feeling all gone.

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Here we stopped to bait the deer, Braisted's and mine being nearly fagged out.

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They look kinder fagged out.

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"Ah, I wasn't so hot and fagged out then.

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I was a confirmed sufferer from insomnia, and although otherwise perfectly well had been completely fagged out that day, from having slept scarcely at all the two previous nights.

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I'm fagged."

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My brain's too fagged."

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"Why, you look as fagged as I feel," he said.

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But she could never get herself to keep up the earnest clowning of bedroom calisthenics; gymnasiums were either reekingly crowded or too expensive--and even to think of undressing and dressing for a gymnasium demanded more initiative than was left in her fagged organism.

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Any man gets a little fagged from being _told_ all the time.

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Don't pull too hard now and get fagged, but keep up a steady lick.

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There were times when he wrote better surrounded by the stimulations of the office; when he was neither fagged nor disturbed he worked at home.

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"But as you were looking rather fagged before you came down with that two-days' headache, I made up my mind that you needed a change and dropped Din a hint to open his camp in the Adirondacks and give you a farewell house-party.

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He felt fagged and the sun was hot.

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The further from romance the world drifts, the fairer it becomes in its fagged eyes.

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Latimer had been besieged on all sides, and, after a hard day, had come home fagged and worn.

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"I am afraid there is no doubt about it," said Lethbridge, when, a little later, the party had come to a halt in their perplexity, and the grim truth had found expression in words, "and, that being the case, I think the best thing we can do is to sit down--for I imagine that we are all beginning to feel a trifle fagged--and nibble a sandwich or two, washing it down with a nip from our flasks, as we discuss the situation."

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I was by this time feeling somewhat fagged, having been on deck for fully twenty-four hours, one-third of which time had been passed in a state of great anxiety; having therefore answered for the present every call upon my attention, and satisfied myself that I could very well be spared for a few hours, I retired to my cabin, giving the steward orders to call me at four bells, at which hour I had arranged for the burial of poor Roberts having long before acquired the sailor's habit of falling asleep at a moment's notice, my head no sooner pressed the pillow than I sank into a sound and dreamless slumber.

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You must be fagged out."

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I've told them if they're too fagged to stand, they'd better fight.

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To him the joyousness seemed almost childish and yet he bathed his fagged spirit in it.

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"You're getting jolly well fagged," said Mr. Lawton, suddenly noticing her expression.

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"All the women were like used-up men, and all the men like a sort of fagged dogs.

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I am therefore rather fagged to-day; and as the hall in which I read to-night is a large one, I must make my letter a short one... My people were torn to ribbons last night.

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The expenditure of lungs and spirits was (as you may suppose) rather great last night, and to sleep well was out of the question; I am therefore rather fagged to-day.

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Indeed, I never fagged more steadily with my pen than I do at present.

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Edna did not regret her words to Sylvia, but she could not help connecting them with Miss Lacey's description of the girl's fagged appearance.

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A north-country term for the fagged end of a rope.

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The operation of unlaying and tapering the end of a rope, and weaving some of its yarns about the diminished part, which is very neat to the eye, prevents it from being fagged out, and makes it handy for reeving in a block, &c. POINT OF THE COMPASS.

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The _pump sucks_ is said when, all the water being drawn out of the well, and air admitted, there comes up nothing but froth and wind, with a whistling noise, which is music to the fagged seaman.

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He also was tired and fagged and cold and jaded.

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He never fagged in body or mind.

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And it was a neat, composed-looking little maiden who met her aunt and sister on their return half an hour or so later, somewhat tired and fagged by their rather tedious afternoon's work.

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Then came an evening on which he returned from a hot day in London, fagged and rather knocked up, though with a certain expression on his face which told his watchful and observant wife that he had come to a decision, which she quietly waited to hear till he sought a good opportunity for telling it.

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But I do so dislike this gloomy place, Francie, and I think papa looks so fagged, and we have scarcely any friends we care for; the people are all so stupid, and so'---- 'So what?'

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Also Henry must come on to see his mother, and take her on to a tea appointment at Cadogan Gardens, thus saving trouble to Lady Douglass, who was really so fagged and wearied by this exhausting afternoon that rest, in a partially darkened room, was nothing short of imperative.

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Of course, I know you fellows were pretty well fagged today, but you don't want to let your ends think they can take their time on that play, old man, for it's got to be fast or it's no earthly good.

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Old Mr. Sandbrook came in, and various other guests arrived, old acquaintance to whom Owen must be re-introduced, and he looked fagged and worn by the time all the greetings had been exchanged and all the remarks made on his children.

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When Owen next appeared in Woolstone-lane he looked fagged and harassed, but talked of all things in sky, earth, or air, politics, literature, or gossip, took the bottom of the table, and treated the Parsonses as his guests.

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She did not know in the least what he could mean, but she was too sick at heart to ask; she only thought he looked unwell, jaded, and fagged, and with a heated complexion.

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At the end of an hour's ride through the forest, all of the boys were so fagged out they could scarcely keep on horseback.

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I represented you as coming home decidedly fagged these hot nights and not always caring to stir."

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Lily did not feel, with her husband, that thrill which she had often noticed in other women: but she wanted to love him, stubbornly pursued the idea, fagged away at her love like a little school-girl only too anxious to learn.

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His fagged nerves cried for tobacco.

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"I don't wonder you look fagged; the ride through the dust was hard enough without having all sorts of other things to hatchel you.

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On and on he spun, lulling my fagged brain with his specious arguments until the change of plan seemed robbed of its poison and I swallowed it.

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Captain Foster, now thoroughly fagged, turned in for a few hours' sleep, after leaving orders to be called at eleven o'clock.

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"Ye look fagged out, poor man, an' no wonder fer comin' over the hills.

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